Bono Interviewed On – ‘The Meaning of Life’

allthatyoucantleavebehindGay Byrne is an Irish television personality/reporter with a show called ‘The Meaning of Life‘ in which he interviews celebrities about . . . the meaning of life.  In this interview, Bono is asked about his life and Christian faith.

You can watch the YouTube video of the interview below, but I don’t think the audio is that great.  However, you can listen/download the audio version which I included beneath the YouTube video in two parts.

I think the first half is more biographical about his life and the band and how he came about his Christian faith, and the second half is more about how he goes about living his faith today.

If there’s any part that jumps out, it’s the start of the second half of the interview to the 2:36 mark.  He’s a transcript I made of it:

Burne: You are obviously a believer, but not in the church as the church . . .

Bono: Oh, but I am a believer in the church. I do believe in the church, I just think the church . . . I don’t think there are loads of different churches, I think there’s one church.  It’s just smashed into loads of different pieces.  And . . . and I think that the Spirit, you know, the Holy Spirit, if you want to call it that, is much more “anarchistic?”¹ than we think.  It says, it comes like a wind, you don’t know where it comes from, you don’t know where it goes, scripture says.  And it continually renews itself. It leans forward and I think religion is a slightly different thing.  And I think people have to be very careful thinking they have a monopoly on the truth.  

You know, there’s a thing everyone reads out at their wedding, that beautiful scripture in Corinthians.  Love is this, love is patient, love bears all things, love believes all things.  You know, then it says faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these things are love.  Well, why is that? Why is love more important than faith? And the answer is just found a few verses later.  Which is that beautiful, beautiful passage, especially beautiful in the King James, where it goes  see through a glass, darkly; but then we shall see face to face’ we know in part; but then I shall know even as I know myself, even all I shall be known.

You see through the glass darkly.  And whenever you see religious people where their faith is more important than love, they got it the wrong way around, in my view.

The Scriptures are very eloquent about love and you know, I can’t really figure it out, um, how people have so maligned Christ, you know.   And by the way, we don’t even know that Christ tended to set up a religion.  We know he asked much bigger questions of people.  Questions about surrender, and I think that would be a better preoccupation than doctrinal matters. 

The Meaning of Life with Bono Part 1 – Ignore the first 26 seconds as a commercial was overplaying with the audio.
Meaning of Life with Bono Part 1

The Meaning of Life with Bono Part 2
Meaning of Life with Bono Part 2

¹ I couldn’t make out what that word was coming out his Irish mouth and that was my best guess.

Posted in Spiritual, U2 | 2 Comments

Bag of Randomness

BQCVmdACcAA8dgI

Posted in Personal | 1 Comment

Bag of Randomness

Jr7kSUbF2sAtg4i9OOiwoG5H3MYqEpSm5gZ7ELE9kdM

  • Barry mentioned how many people on Facebook are posting a story about a new pastor of a megachurch visiting his new church as a homeless person to unexpected (or expected) results.  That made me remember a chapel service at Hardin-Simmons in which the speaker talked about a previous trip to the campus as a homeless person, and when it was time to speak at chapel, he did so as the homeless person to the shock of the audience and talked about how he was ignored and referenced the parable of the good Samaritan.  I remember feeling conflicted about that sermon because campus officials told us to not to interact with the homeless or suspicious visitors for safety reasons.  After all, we weren’t in the safest part in town, and during the first week of my university experience a student was mugged and shot.  Heck, there was a dumpster literally outside my from window and everyday I saw a non-student digging inside of it.  The hardest was watching mothers put their little kids inside to rummage through.
  • Speaking of not being in the safest part of town, I remember hearing so many sirens the first few days of living on campus and then told not to worry and I’d get use to it as we lived across the street from a hospital . . . and then someone got mugged and shot.
  • Regarding chapel, all freshmen and sophomores were required to attend something like 85% of them, and they were held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  Tuesday was usually the more serious, preachy one, and the Thursday chapel was more student lead, fun, and not always faith based.
  • It’s funny how DaughterGeeding will try to bargain or get out of stuff when talking to her mother.  WifeGeeding will tell DaughterGeeding to do something, and DaughterGeeding will reply, “OK, mom.  But, how about we do/try this?”
  • Cowboys Stadium hosted some international soccer games with a grass field that nobody liked.  They even used green sand to fill up the holes.
  • The Rangers have a new Taco Dog, and it’s just about as you would imagine it – a shell in a bun with a hotdog and taco meat.
  • CBS11 visited Six Flags one two different days after the accident with hidden cameras to test how ride attendants are watching over ride passengers.  They purposely left seat belts unbuckled and didn’t lower lap bars down properly, and the employees caught it each time.  Here’s the video segment.
  • The other day I mentioned how pretzel bread is the new “it” thing.  Sonic now has a pretzel hot dog.
  • I could easily write a ten page paper on the annoyances of Vince Young.
  • Google has a new piece of hardware called Chromecast.  It’s a small device that hooks up to an HDMI outlet and you can use a Chrome web browser on your device (iPad, computer, phone) and watch it on your television.  The ad is a bit deceptive as it shows it looks just like a USB thumbdrive, but after closer inspection, the fine print says you have to hook a power adapter to it.
  • No way, other than obvious reasons, and here’s too much money to be made in religion – Religion to Disappear By 2041 Claims New Study
  • The birth of Christ in a nutshell
  • Texas is well represented in the top ten as well as DFW – The 50 Hardest Working Cities in America
  • Those ComicCon folks sure look like a fun easy going bunch.
  • And a bit more ComicCon humor if you like the X-Men and Scooby-Doo.
  • It took almost all my life to realize that the man in the yellow hat in all the Curious George stories resembles a banana.
  • Dodger Stadium Serves Frozen Beer Foam – Keeps Drink Cold For 30 Minutes
  • Death Happens More Slowly Than Thought
  • VIDEO: Florida State’s Nick O’Leary, grandson of Jack Nicklaus, survives horrifying motorcycle crash
Posted in Personal | 2 Comments